Microsoft Senior Software Development Engineer reviews

Easy to get lost in such a large company and not see the value to the bottom line if you're not working on a key deliverable. Consistently behind delivering relevant products first to market.

* it's a seat-keeping culture. meaning that people are "working" there to keep the good salary/benefits forever, and not to deliver a good product or some value for the company. that may make you very angry if you're a delivery oriented fast paced developer. but there's no point in arguing or "escalating". because you'll most likely to escalate the issue to somebody who's also "keeping the seat", and they will most likely get rid of you rather than break their nice and safe environment * if you're outside of Redmond campus, it'd hard to find somebody from the interesting team with whom you can talk face-2-face, because almost everything about development is in Redmond. outside are mostly only Sales, Evangelists and minor development, which flows into Redmond slowly anyway.